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Paramount+ currently has a promotion for a free month. The promo code is "Glory". ("Attacking Third" is an official podcast of CBS Sports.)

The Concacaf W Championship begins now. Streaming links for those in the USA: https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/concacaf-w-qualifiers/ (The first night's matches and the semifinals will also be shown on CBS Sports Network.) If you're in the USA and don't have Paramount+, the matches can be watched via the ViX app for free (Spanish only): https://vix.com/es-es/deportes Edit: The promo code "Glory" should be good for a free month of Paramount+ ("Attacking Third" is an official podcast of CBS Sports.)

After a 16-year absence, the U.S.A. has qualified for the men's tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, following a 3-nil victory over host Honduras in the semifinals of the just-concluded CONCACAF U-20 Championship. In the final, the U-20 USMNT easily defeated the Dominican Republic 6-nil, who had a Cinderella run, qualifying for both the Olympics and also next year's U-20 World Cup. CONCACAF's YouTube highlights (links because embedding is blocked): Semifinal vs. Honduras and Final vs. Dominican Republic. In addition to the U.S.A. and the Dominican Republic, Guatemala (who knocked out Mexico in the quarterfinals) and Honduras also qualified for the U-20 World Cup.

Peter Brook, British Theater and Film Director, Dies at 97 (THR)

Peacock nixes Michael Schur's Field of the Dreams series. Variety:

The Big Ten has released a statement confirming that UCLA and USC were both approved to join the conference. Also, both UCLA and USC have released statements officially announcing their planned moves to the Big Ten.

THR has an interview article with Bruce Horak (Lt. Hemmer). [Spoilers for episode 1x09]

One-minute teaser trailer:

Alex Wagner will be the permanent Tuesday-through-Friday host for the 9pm timeslot, starting August 16th. Rachel Maddow will continue to host her weekly show on Mondays in the same timeslot. From the NY Times article in the embedded tweet :

From THR: Netflix will be introducing an ad-supported tier, which will apparently be cheaper than its normal plans. Quote from Co-CEO Ted Sarandos: And, from Variety: Netflix is laying off 300 more employees. In May, they laid off 150 full-time employees, plus "dozens of" part-time and contract workers.

USWNT forward Catarina Macario suffered an ACL injury in Lyon's final regular season match, so she'll be out for several months. The 2023 WWC is over 13 months away, so if there's no complications, she should be cleared to play sometime in February or March, leaving plenty of time to get back to full match fitness.

Canada's MNT just announced that they are on strike and will not play their scheduled friendly versus Panama today (Sunday, June 5th). Here's a quick OCR of the letter (may have spelling and formatting errors): From yesterday: Edit: The WNT has responded with a statement: The text of statement:

Guy Pearce will be returning for the grand finale, as will Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan, plus a host of other actors (Deadline article, Sky article).

With the Women's Euro and CONCACAF qualifying for the 2023 Women's World Cup about a month away, I thought that a dedicated women's soccer thread would be useful. Here are summaries of the tournaments, with TV/streaming details and useful links. 2022 CONCACAF W Championship - July 4 to 18 (Concacaf.com, Wikipedia, Twitter) Group A: United States, Mexico, Jamaica, Haiti Group B: Canada, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago USA TV/Streaming: CBS Sports Network / Paramount+, TUDN/ViX* (Spanish language) What's at Stake: Top 2 teams in each group qualify for the 2023 Women's World Cup. The 3rd Place teams in each group qualify for an inter-confederation_play-off tournament (Wikipedia) consisting of 8 teams, with the top 3 teams qualifying for the 2023 WWC. Additionally, the winner of the Championship qualifies for the 2024 Olympics, while the runner-up and 3rd place teams will advance to an intra-CONCACAF play-off for the second slot at the 2024 Olympics UEFA Women's Euro 2022 - July 6 to 31 (Uefa.com, Wikipedia, Twitter) Group A: England, Norway, Austria, Northern Ireland Group B: Germany, Spain, Denmark, Finland Group C: Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Portugal Group D: France, Italy, Belgium, Iceland USA TV/Streaming: ESPN/ESPN2/ESPN+ (ESPN.com schedule), TUDN/ViX* (Spanish language) A few teams -- France, Netherlands, and Portugal -- have announced their squads already. Notably absent from France's squad are Amandine Henry, who turns 33 in September and Eugénie Le Sommer, who turned 33 in May (ESPN article). *ViX is TelevisaUnivision's streaming service and is currently free in the USA. Also, two FIFA youth Women's World Cups are scheduled for the second half of this year: the U-20 WWC in August (10th to 28th) and the U-17 WWC in October (11th to 30th). The USA, Canada, and Mexico have all qualified for both tournaments. The NWSL (NWSLsoccer.com, Twitter) regular season is currently underway. Fans outside the USA can watch all matches on Twitch for free. For those in the USA, some matches are streamed for free on Twitch, while most are streamed via Paramount+(subscription required). A handful of matches have and will air on CBS Sports Network and CBS.

There will be less "BREAKING NEWS" on CNN... From The Daily Beast article:

10-second social media teaser (Twitter): The teaser is also on Instagram, but video is cropped to portrait (9:16 ratio).

RENEWED! - For a 10 episode 3rd season. From the Global press release: In the U.S.A., the first season of the series will debut this fall on the CW, airing on Sundays in the 8pm ET/PT slot (CW press release).

MSNBC makes it official: Jen Psaki, Former White House Press Secretary, To Join MSNBC (press release) As of now, there are no plans for Psaki to anchor her own show on MSNBC. She will be available as a guest/analyst/pundit, most likely starting sometime in September. In early 2023, she will launch a streaming-only show on Peacock. From the press release:

Nominations for 2022 were announced today (text only list, Deadline; interactive list with photos on TonyAwards.com). The ceremony will be on June 12th. Here's the list of best musicals and plays, along with lead actor/actress noms:

Deadline has new details about the Dirty Dancing sequel. It now has an expected release date of sometime in 2024. The project first became public in April 2020 (Deadline). Originally, Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis were set to write the sequel.

^The Lexington Herald-Leader has a good write-up about the jockey, Sonny Leon. Here's the last 50 seconds of the 2022 Kentucky Derby, with Rich Strike labeled (the video in the tweet may be geo-blocked for those outside the USA): And the full race (via YouTube; again, may be geo-blocked for those outside of the USA):

Start the countdown! In 20 days, Chuck Todd will no longer have a daily show on MSNBC. Todd will be shifting over to the "NBC News NOW" streaming service, where he will have a daily (Monday-Friday) show at 4pm Eastern, "Meet the Press NOW", which launches on June 6th. (back-up link to the MSNBC press release)

A few news articles about the series: Deadline (March 1st): ‘Metropolis’ TV Adaptation From Sam Esmail Lands Series Order At Apple Deadline (April 14th): AppleTV+’s Ambitious Sam Esmail Sci-Fi Drama ‘Metropolis’ To Shoot In Australia Sydney Morning Herald (April 14th): Metropolis comes Down Under: Cinema’s most famous robot in $188 million reboot This article also has more details about the proposed 'LED volume'. $188 million in Australian dollars is roughly $135 million in U.S. dollars. (In the past six months, the exchange rate from AUD to USD has fluctuated between 0.70 and 0.75 - Google.)

TelevisaUnivision* recently launched a free Spanish-language streaming service, ViX. (In the USA, ViX is primarily a rebranding of Univision's "PrendeTV" service, which was launched in 2021.) From a February press release: According to Screenrant,... The service is also available in Mexico and "most of Latin America", per the press release. *Univision and Televisa completed a merger in January 2022. From the Variety write-up: